Quotes on Conservatism

The whole world is burdened with young fogies. Old men with ossified minds are easily dealt with. But men who look young, act young, and everlastingly harp on the fact they are young, but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution which would be excessive in their grandfathers, are the curses of the world.

The only thing harder than getting a new idea into the military mind is to get an old one out.

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of the living dead.